Butcher's Embrace

She made bread. He made bodies disappear. Together, they're everything.

Bridget Callahan has spent three years keeping her mother's bakery alive—one 4 AM morning at a time. But when her brother's gambling debts catch up to her, she finds herself facing down loan sharks with nothing but a rolling pin and the stubborn determination that's kept her standing through every loss.

Then he walks through her door.

Butcher didn't become the Empire Kings' Sergeant at Arms by being gentle. He handles the club's darkest work without hesitation—interrogations, eliminations, problems that need to disappear. When Moran's collectors push into Kings territory and put hands on the baker who's been serving him bread for two years, Butcher sees red.

What he doesn't expect is her.

Bridget Callahan with her flour-dusted hands and iron spine. Bridget who watches him kill three men in her kitchen and doesn't run. Bridget who looks at the monster everyone else fears—and sees a man worth saving.

She's not supposed to matter. She's just a woman caught in a territorial war.

But when Butcher claims her as his to protect, the line between duty and obsession disappears. Because Bridget isn't just under his protection anymore.

She's becoming his reason to survive.

As Moran's attacks escalate from threats to destruction to all-out war, Butcher will have to embrace everything he is—the violence, the darkness, the man the Army made and then discarded. But Bridget isn't asking him to change. She's standing beside him, recipe binder in hand, ready to build a life from the ashes.

In Hell's Kitchen, love is forged in fire. Loyalty is earned in blood. And when a killer finds the woman who makes him want to be more, nothing will stop him from claiming her.

Butcher's Embrace is the fourth standalone MC romance in the Empire Kings MC Series. Guaranteed HEA. No cliffhanger.